NANDA Workshop

5-6 September 2022

The Imperial College HiPEDS Research Centre hosted an exciting 2-day workshop on Novel Architecture and Novel Design Automation (NANDA).

This brought together renowned experts in these two areas to present their latest advances and create a forum to spark new ideas.

Workshop details

Programme - Day 1

Monday, 5 September 2022

08:50 - Welcome

09:00 - NANDA: the Next Frontier

            Wayne Luk, Imperial College

09:30 - When Serverless Meets Servers

            Boris Grot, University of Edinburgh

10:00 - Dedicated Inter-FPGA Networks for Scalable Reconfigurable Computing

             Kentaro Sano, RIKEN

10:30 – BREAK

11:00 - Bringing Formal Methods to FPGAs

            John Wickerson, Imperial College

11:30 - What Interactive Theorem Proving Can Do For Verilog Hardware Development

            Andreas Lööw, Imperial College

12:00 - ROVER: RTL Optimisation via Verified E-graph Rewriting

            Samuel Coward, Imperial College and Intel

12:30 – LUNCH

14:00 - Co-designing a Language, Tool chain, and Architecture: Lessons Learnt from the POETS Project

            David Thomas, University of Southampton

14:30 - Efficient Deployment of CNNs under Resource Constraints

            Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Imperial College

15:00 - Towards a Formal Specification of Intel’s x86 Architecture

            Alastair Reid, Intel

15:30 – BREAK

16:00 - Extending Intel-x86 Consistency and Persistency

            Azalea Raad, Imperial College

16:30 - Precise-Event Sampling on x86 Architectures and Its Uses in Profiling Tools

            Didem Unat, Koç University

17:00 - Clio A Hardware-Software Co-Designed Disaggregated Memory System

            Yiying Zhang, UCSD

Contact us

For general enquiries on how to work with the HiPEDS Centre, please get in touch with the Director of the HiPEDS Research Centre, Professor Wayne Luk

w.luk@imperial.ac.uk